How has Linux helped you save time/money?

[steveneddy]

Has Ubuntu or another form of Linux caused you to save money or time at work or personal tasks while using you PC(s)?

I'm happy that I don't have to spend money on anti-virus software or restart twice a day, like it or not.

[handy]

Obviously it's free, & most everything I run on it is also free.

No time saving here.

Spending time with Linux associated things is my hobby.

[sethvath]

Coming from mac osx, I have saved close to $6,000 in software licenses and fees by using open source alternatives. If adobe ever releases a native linux photoshop and lightroom I would have to buy another license for ubuntu and that might hurt.

[brunovecchi]

It has saved me so much time that I can't really count it.
Last example. I had to add a .pdb extension to 1000 files (yes, one thousand). I did it in under a minute:

for F in *; do mv $F $F.pdb; done

That saved me two hours right there, give or take. And it's just a tiny, non-representative example out of a myriad of everyday situations.

[cardinals_fan]

I have saved time with dwm, gThumb, and the CLI (Zsh). Of course, you can run Zsh with Cygwin, but it just works better natively.

[Grant A.]

Saved a lot of money on tech support, and a lot of time troubleshooting when the program's installers fail.

[TwiceOver]

I had a whole tirade about how Ubuntu and Linux in general saved my time but I decided to just say "Yes". Time is money and I have saved way more Time with some of my Linux hijinks than I would have expended using IIS, Windows, FTP, etc.

EDIT:

As an example, earlier today I install Ubuntu Server, LAMP, ProFTPD, Update, Upgrade, Webmin, Configure all within 1.5hrs. Imagine doing that with Server 200X and IIS/FTP/SQL + Updates, + Configure. Guarantee the Windows side would have been the better portion of my day.

The Ubuntu/Linux side was just a "What If..." and done within 2 hrs.

[chucky chuckaluck]

i've actually wasted a lot more time just in redecorating, alone.

[kk0sse54]

I agree with chucky chuckaluck, I've probably wasted more time distro hopping, configuring all the different Os's, and decorating my desktop

[dhughes]

I don't play games on my system, so with the money I didn't spend on Windows I bought an Xbox360, MS still got money from me

Maybe this is a good selling point of Linux, spend that money on a game console!